The International Air Transport Association is unhappy with the European Aviation Safety Agency’s ban on flights over Belarus, calling “the politicisation of...
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Veteran UK journalist John Sweeney has called a television appearance – clearly made under duress – by abducted Belarus journalist Roman Protasevich...
Central Europe The CEO of Hungarian airline Wizz Air criticised European governments on Wednesday for barring flights over Belarus in response to the forced landing of a...
As Russia opens a new front in its ongoing hybrid war with the West, Belarus’ national airline is caught in the crosshairs. The European Union told its airlines this...
EU airlines have been told to avoid Belarusian airspace while the national carrier of Belarus, Belavia, has been barred from accessing the bloc’s airports. Non-EU...
The European Union faces a major international crisis after Belarus forced a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius to land in Minsk, allowing the country’s...
Authorities in Belarus look set to use new “anti-Nazi” legislation to intensify their crackdown on independent media and civil society. New and amended laws...
Authorities in Belarus this week intensified their repression of independent media, shutting down the country’s largest news portal, TUT.by. The largest and most...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Belarus may have a puritanical president whose increasingly repressive regime tolerates little dissent, but the gamblers who throng from neighbouring countries to its...
Protests in Belarus since a rigged presidential election last August have been characterised by their creativity. So much so that as well as inspiring works of art, the...
The recent arrest and sentencing of members of the Polish diaspora in Belarus are part of a growing campaign of harassment and persecution orchestrated by the...
